I'm just thinking. I was pulled over for my offense and given notice of the fine and points on the spot, so maybe that's different. It might be different if it was a van etc. IIRC there was a case a few years ago where someoone appealed a second offence because they never received notice between the first and second offences.

I thought he was bad when Analise Murphy medalled in Rio but that was peak Ross.

He's only to be seen when a pitch in his constituency gets built or when someone wins a medal despite his department giving them no money or support.

'And striding away now! For Leinster, is Brian O'Driscoll! He's Running for the posts, he could be running for the Final here! We've got a quarter of the match to go but at the moment the colour is Blue!!' Myles Harrison; Croke Park; 2nd May 2009

I thought he was bad when Analise Murphy medalled in Rio but that was peak Ross.

He's only to be seen when a pitch in his constituency gets built or when someone wins a medal despite his department giving them no money or support.

That wasn't the case though - Hockey Ireland received nearly a million euro in funding over the last 12 months including core funding, its high performance grant, the women in sport grant and special payments to cover the mens and womens hockey world cups.

Is it enough? Probably not.

But then that goes for pretty much every sport, including the ones we actually care about year round. One thing I do know is that sport, like a lot of things in this half-assed state of ours, is something we want to have better funding but don't really want to have to pay to fund.

Dave Cahill wrote:That wasn't the case though - Hockey Ireland received nearly a million euro in funding over the last 12 months including core funding, its high performance grant, the women in sport grant and special payments to cover the mens and womens hockey world cups.

Is it enough? Probably not.

But then that goes for pretty much every sport, including the ones we actually care about year round. One thing I do know is that sport, like a lot of things in this half-assed state of ours, is something we want to have better funding but don't really want to have to pay to fund.

Tbf to Ross, I don't see why people complain about the minister for sport attending events like that. He quite clearly shouldn't be the minster for sport and lots of things about him are annoying (mixing up the Kearneys, and even just the fact that he wore a suit and tie to the game on Sunday) but people giving out about him jumping on the bandwagon or wasting expenses on trips is wrong IMO.

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:Tbf to Ross, I don't see why people complain about the minister for sport attending events like that. He quite clearly shouldn't be the minster for sport and lots of things about him are annoying (mixing up the Kearneys, and even just the fact that he wore a suit and tie to the game on Sunday) but people giving out about him jumping on the bandwagon or wasting expenses on trips is wrong IMO.

It's not that - did you see the setup for the reception. He was centre stage while the team were in a semi circle around him. It was all about him - it was like his homecoming that he had graciously allowed the team to join him on stage. Then he announces "he" has decided to give an extra €1.5mm (to audible gasps from the women who obviously thought it was for hockey) to all sports.

He makes it about him - every time. He should be at these events - but not to improve the image of Shane Ross (tm) - but rather to promote the game or sport in general

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Yeah I saw that and agree it was weird, but people weren't just giving out about that, they were giving out about him being at the match and the reception in town. It's the latter two that I think is stupid to complain about. Part of that criticism was based around him not funding hockey when that wasn't actually the case and that seems unfair to me. I was listening to second captains yesterday and they gave him both barrels for that press conference, which was totally deserved.